LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 January 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

i Home Guard and E.P.S. Parade. ] I A parade of the Home Guard and I Emergency Precautions Scheme drill k I units will’be held tomorrow night at '• 7 o’clock. Home Guard men will parI ade at the Drill Hall and E.P.S. men at a i the Municipal Hall. ! ' Labour Party Conference. > Because of the war situation, the 3-: national executive 01. the Labour ■ Party has decided, at the unanimous request of the Parliamentary party, to - hold the annual Easter conference in Wellington instead of Auckland, as agreed upon by resolution at last year’s conference. Rotary Club Meeting. It was intended that the first gather- : ing of the year of the Masterton Rotary Club should be held at Mt. Bruce, but on account of the unsuitable weather this proposal has been abandoned, and the meeting will now take place as usual in,the Y.M.C.A. building at 12.30 p.m. tomorrow. Flower Show Successes. Al the Miramar and Eastern Suburbs Horticultural Society’s Show, Mr. R. J. Leighton, of Michael Street. Masterton. won four first prizes and a special prize in the gladioli novice class, this having been Mr. Leighton’s first appearance Us an exhibitor. Mr. Leighton also won the novice championship in gladioli. In the amateur gladioli class. Mr. H. S. Smith, of Renall Street. Masterton. secured three first awards. A Yacht Sealed. j The friendliness and consideration I with which he has been treated by the authorities in Napier is the subject of favourable comment by Captain George Dibbern. owner of the yacht Te Rapunga. who is of German birth and subject to internment. The Te Rapunga. with Captain Dibbern and Miss Eileen Morris. Napier, on board, ar- j rived at Napier at the weekend, having; completed a voyage across the Pacific. ■ The yacht has been sealed and the, authorities are awaiting further directions from Wellington. Carter Observatory. Good progress is being made in the! construction of the Carter Observatory building, in the Botanical Gardens. J Wellington. and before long it is ex-' pected that experts will be able to begin installing the equipment. At pre-; sent the new observatory staff is ac- ■ commodated in the old Wellington | City Council observatory. The new i observatory will be the best equipped in the Dominion and well tilted to i become the country’s leading institu- ; lion engaged in pure astronomy. Hardware Firm Fined. For having sold a plane to Herbert I Jensen. Ltd., on October 4, at a price I higher than the lowest price at which the company sold or was willing to I sell on September 1. 1939. £1 2s 6d without the authority of the Minister of Industries and Commerce, the Arthur Hopwood Hardware Company. Ltd., was fined £2. with costs £2 12s. by Mr Watson, S.M., in the Palmerston North Magistrates’ Court. The facts admitted were that on October 4 a plane was sold for £ 1 4s. whereas on September 1, 1939. the price was £1 2s 6d. There had not been a her-! mit issued for the increased price. Mine Explosion Inquiry Ended. A tribute to the manner in which the police obtained statements and' made inquiries was paid by the chair-1 num. Mr Chisholm, S.M., at the con- I elusion at Greymouth yesterday of the I hearing of evidence by the Royal I Commission inquiring into the cause< lof the explosion at the Ten Mile! Mine. The chief witness yesterday was ) George Duggan, chief inspector of: mines. He expressed the opinion that! the explosion originated in the rise J place off the west level, and that the I explosion of gas must have been cans- j ed by some form of naked light. Counsel did not address the commission, j which the chairman said would report I to the Governor-General ! Gift Parcels Wanted. The National Patriotic Fund Board requires at an early date 35,000 parcels to send overseas, under the unaddressed gift parcels scheme, to the I i members of the New Zealand fighting j I services. Each of the 11 provincial ; patriotic councils has been allotted a quota, and they have been asked to ; forward their parcels as soon as they , are ready, without wailing till the i quota has been completed. Warm tip- { ‘ j predation has been expressed by they ■ New Zealand forces of the parcels; | : they have received to date and any appeal is made to al! citizens to as- { sist their provincial organisationseither by contributing parcels or the j money to buy them The Wellington ; province's quota is 7090.